Good Saturday and welcome to the weekend, folks. It’s a day featuring a little more humidity and that’s leading to a better chance for scattered showers and storms going up. These storms will increase even more for Sunday and Monday as a system drops in from the northwest.
As mentioned, today’s storms are fairly scattered about the region with a greater concentration showing up to our north and west. That’s where the Storm Prediction Center has a low-end risk for a few severe storms…
This threat sinks southward into central and eastern Kentucky on Sunday…
Local wind damage and hail will be possible with these storms. In addition, we will have to watch for hit and run high water issues developing as these storms will pack a heavy rain punch.
Scattered showers and storms will linger into Monday and early Tuesday as our system pulls away to the east. We are likely to get into a seasonable pattern for the middle and end of next week, but the tropics are likely to play a role in all this.
A system is developing down in the western Gulf of Mexico and may get a name…
It continues to be interesting to see the GFS Ensembles keeping some kind of trough in the means across our region into the south for the final week of the month…
From there, the same GFS Ensembles are showing another trough developing with some tropical systems off the southeast for Labor Day Weekend…
I will have an update if needed later today. Until then, I leave you with your Saturday storm tracking tools…
Current watches
Possible Watch Areas
Have a great Saturday and take care.
Thanks Chris, I noticed on the GFS the large high pressure ridge out West has extended farther North into the State of Alaska, which indicates a change we didn’t have in the recent past. Could mean a Colder Fall and Winter for the Eastern half of the Country. Still too early to forecast though.
Hoping we get good soaking rains tomorrow without the severe weather and flooding ?
La Nina seems to have decided to activate the Tropics. Hope its not a long season of destructive storms ?